Saturday, 24 November 2012

Creating Counting Tiles

Counting

Competent
counting requires mastery of a symbolic system, facility with a complicated set
of procedures that require pointing at objects and designating them with
symbols, and understanding that some aspects of counting are merely
conventional, while others lie at the heart of its mathematical usefulness. (Kilpatrick, Swafford, & Findell, p.159)

Many of the mathematical concepts that students
learn

in the first few years of school are closely tied to counting.

Curriculum
Expectation:

NS1 demonstrate an understanding of numbers,
using

concrete materials to explore and investigate counting, quantity, and
number relationships.

Our
Hands on Thinking Center now includes manipulatives to support the children in
developing number sense and numeration skills such as counting, quantity and
representing numbers.

Representing
Numbers

To support the children in developing counting,
quantity, and number representation skills, we co-constructed number tiles.

Counting
Tiles

The children began by taking turns labelling
tiles from 1 to 10.

Representing
the Numbers

The children then took turns representing the
numbers

using a variety of different materials.

While the children counted out beads, buttons,

marbles, etc. we emphasized the concept of one-to-one correspondence and using
our fingers to touch each object as we counted.

Displaying the Numbers

The number tiles are now displayed at our Hands
on Thinking center for the children to refer to during play.

About Me

This blog has been created with the hope that it will provide the families of our students with voices from our classroom. Inspired by the Reggio Emilia approach to learning, you will see in our blog the emphasis we place on the content of projects; how the children are encouraged to explore their environment and express themselves in multiple ways, all their "languages."
Our aim is to provide our students with a learning environment that supports creativity, collaboration and shared inquiry. We hope to build a learning community where children and our team think together and learn from each other.
Life-long Learners, R. Polichronopoulos & S. Nitsotolis